Guessing Quotes

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.

The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades.

You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.